Chapter 329 (1/2)

Chapter 329: The Living and the Undead

Translator: iainst the undead? Most people would find either a Holy Knight or a priest of Holy Light to assist them as they were, after all, mortal enemies with the undead Many abilities and Divine Arts of these two job classes were directly anti-undead in nature, and their specialized undead detection Divine Arts would prove very helpful

“No undead shall ever escape the judgeht job classof theirs

Yet, in reat as it seeht’s natural undead ic resistance They would release a s and consequently hunt for instances of resistance

First of all, since the power of Holy Light was lie radius Even high-level Holy Knights would only be able to sense undead within a few kilohts—they could only cover a radius equivalent to a house And if they atte was stopping the undead fro them back The worst part of this Divine Art was that its basic principles helped ensure that the undead would find you the same moment you discovered them

In fact, I knew of several old undead—each more than three hundred years old—with the ability to detect Holy Light job class ht in the air: it worked the saic in an area like this—where there were so many undead—would be akin to suicide

The typical scouting job classes, the rangers and thieves, were no good at detecting the undead Rangers relied on divine arts that detected the presence of life, which made it useless on the undead for obvious reasons Meanwhile, undead ic spells at their disposal, which would give thieves a really hard time Most undead would detect their ene useless the thieves’ typical stealth techniques of concealing theht By now, you must have realized the sheer ridiculousness of Ah Gen’s actions—he had actually believed that his not-even-stealth skills could fool a Blood Tribe noble!

However, just which job class was thewith the undead?

First, this job class needed plenty of ways to detect the undead The nextwas that this job class had to be able to survive whilst fighting against the undead—if not, then it should at least have the ability to escape

In that case, the final conclusion was evident The ive the undead trouble was… undead ers I cast one of the ic spells, Control Undead The corpse zos now had to heed inal boss was a pile of shattered bones

Once I eli them, these low-level corpse zos that would attack anything and everything in sight All I had to do was imprint my soul upon them and they instantly became my puppets

I closed my eyes and es were far better at detected undead cohts—their natural talent allowed them to be far more effective anti-undead scouts After all, without such an ability, hoere undead redients and corpses?

“There’s a small undead team about three kiloht”

I casually donned that unlucky lesser lich’s black cape after giving it a nice shake It would seem that my prey were aplenty I would be quite busy today…

I coveredthe appearance of e of e who sensed me would think that I was a lesser lich who only recently becauising myself as a normal lich? I was here to hunt, not to be hunted The weakest lich would be a Legend, and if such a lich manifested itself so close to the wood spirit and adventurer cae force to eradicate it And even though there were plenty of high-level undead under the Undead Lords, every lich would be a well-knoerful individual Casually trying to disguise uise would be seen through Nor could I use Rex’s identity anyht, then By now, perhaps you readers have guessed what I intended to do… yep, an old favorite of mine, Undead Calamity!

“Oh ht Where do you think you’re running off to!”

Since I was already here, how could I possibly be satisfied by ? All these undead ere everywhere here were like free subordinates Since I was soon going to have a big battle against the undead, ouldn’t I accept all these free soldiers? Perhaps I could even take advantage of disguising myself as an undead and obtain soh it was fairly coles between undead while they were back in the Undead Planes, the Undead Lords were now in charge here The undead with intelligence would no longer have any internal conflict Still, infighting ast low-level undead wouldn’t attractout the undead or reorganizing them en masse would attract too much attention

“Remember, come meet up with me when I order you to do so”

That hy I didn’t actually have hest-level undead stay behind with my soul imprint and had them remain where they were It was only that they would now listen to my orders and would return to me when I coly accept any specially e them for some low-level undead

It was sie its parts as it sailed By the end, it inal shi+p if all its parts had been exchanged out? Well, I had no need to ponder on such a philosophical question At the very least, the undead under er as they evolved under me as well

“…The prey this time is quite troublesoainst ht on its bone swords It appeared that its swords were poisonous Not only that, its bones were a dull yellohich indicated that it had apparently been strengthened by the earth elethened undead, but, judging froent undead

The corpse zombies under my command were far too low-level The skeleton swords towards e ore a black cape identical to the one I pilfered He was currently casting buff spells on his undead

“A skeleton e who’s an expert in undead modification? This skeleton’s bones have been earth eleic poison, and it’s been at h it’s obviously the best choice to directly attack the eneht beforesoulfire in its eye sockets right in my eyes It was so close I could even catch a whiff of decaying stench Yet, le step forward

“It’s so foolish of you to have charged right towardsh the skeleton warrior’s rib cage, into its backbone I then twirledthe skeleton’s bones apart

Undeadabout a skeleton’s weaknesses For these high-level skeleton warriors, they wouldn’t feel pain at all Even if you smashed in a skeleton warrior’s skull, it would still be perfectly fine and continue attacking you Even if you sliced off its right hand, its left hand would still pierce straight at you However, their greatest weakness would always be where their bones were connected As long as you destroyed the skeleton’s spine, it wouldn’t even be able to stand up anye was sreatest weapon didn’t even last a single of ned the strictest soul contract with me

And so, I took coain, and uards Then, I left some of the most seriously injured corpse zoe to fix for me I left him there with his bitter expression

This was only one such exa, ten-plus undead scouting and logistics teas With all these new servants, I had eyes and ears over the entire Wendes Mountains the wood spirits’ cae as well

“Hoeird Why a undead had a cost associated to it In order to have low-level undead ere naturally bloodthirsty obey an undead e would have to mark their soul imprints upon the undead The more precise control you wanted over the undead, the more intricate a soul imprint was required, which also h-level undead, ould instinctively resist you, a long-term investment of both mana and concentration was required

My mana level was currently the equivalent of any other Gold-ranked knight This e h-level undead Withto control two high-level undead, which hy I instead signed soul contracts with them, the type where I could kill theether with me This would motivate the to control their every action

Most undead armies worked the same way Even an Undead Emperor would find it impossible to personally control each and every undead under his coh-level coh-level undead commanders would establish n soul contracts with the mid-level ones, while the mid-level co the undead